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Unfortunately, as you can see, 2011-13 were corrupted by the previous forum data transfer. The culprit is Pokemon. By using the accent "e" in the official title spelling, this caused all the rest of any post with that alt-coding to become lost. This is really noticeable in the 2011 one, where it cuts out part-way through my list. I am willing to go back and recreate the lists to the best of my abilities (new archive thread would be created with three posts, each then hyperlinked going forward on each year's main post), but this will take a while, and the effort will largely be stymied by corruption of most posts made by people completing Pokemon games that year (unless they personally avoided using the accent). For example, I know what Pokemon games I personally finished in what years, but that's about it. If I do go through with it, I can PM those whose lists are affected to find out if they can recall the specific lost titles. That said, I will only embark on this endeavor if there is enough interest in having the old lists available. Let me know in the thread's discussion.

Onto the real matter at hand! The rules for the list are simple, but very important. All games completed in the calendar year of 2018 can be counted for inclusion. Completed-in-2018 is the sole rule. Whatever you want to count as an individual title is up to you. It is your list. I am merely here to help leave a lasting legacy, in case you ever want to remind yourself when you beat a certain game. Please, use this thread to discuss the games you complete with each other, whether said game is a gem or a turd. If you are for some reason lying about completing a game on an online forum, that's your problem, not mine. I operate under the impression that this is done for fun.

Updates to the list will be made at least daily. If you do not see your game added to your list within 24 hours, then please PM me or raise a hand--it is possible, but unlikely, that I have skipped over your post. NOTE: I will usually not notice an edited post if edited quite some time after the initial posting. Please double-post instead if you need to clarify something or immediately wrap up another game. In the now unlikely/improbable possibility that I will be away from the internet (I finally got a smartphone in February of 2017) for an extended period of time, I will post a notice. I will catch up once I am able to.

For personal list customization, please highlight or point out any special notes about a playthrough. For example, you may use brackets or bold/italics to point out game difficulty, play time count, completion percentage, et al. I will be happy to include this on your list, but I can only do so if it is fairly obvious in the post. While I do tend to read most posts thoroughly, a remark on game difficulty buried in the middle of the third paragraph (of seven) will most likely slip through the cracks. If you want to have total game hours tracked, I can also include that statistic next to the number of completed games listed next to the your name--just ask for this service in your first post in this thread, and I will track it from there.

Finally, because I am a dirty, fat liar, there is actually a second rule. You must include the system that the game was concluded on. If not, I will count it as "????", and it will be your responsibility to rectify this, not mine.

Games will be listed in the following order (in chronological order; i.e. NES, SNES, N64, etc.):

Systems:
Nintendo Family
Sega Family
PlayStation Family
Xbox Family
PC
Arcade
Other

For digital store games, please list them on the platform you physically beat the game on, but mention that the game came from a specific digital service. For example, if you use PSN to download Final Fantasy VII and beat it on a PSVita, then please list the game as Final Fantasy VII (PSVita) - via PSN. This is also welcome for Steam and other PC-based digital services. I will by no means stress this; this is just a request from yours truly for the sake of formalities.

Bioshock Infinite: 360. Second playthrough, and still a very enjoyable experience...except that final level with zero checkpoints and is steep curve in difficulty. Love that ending though so it's worth it.

Ladykiller in a Bind (PC via Steam) -- Got this as a Christmas gift from my husband and I loved it. I definitely want to go back and do more playthroughs to get even more of the story. For what it is worth, I managed to woo both Beauty and Stalker! I am a lady's lady.

Ladykiller in a Bind (PC via Steam) -- Got this as a Christmas gift from my husband and I loved it. I definitely want to go back and do more playthroughs to get even more of the story. For what it is worth, I managed to woo both Beauty and Stalker! I am a lady's lady.

I don't think I got the harem ending when I played it. My memory is that I played it twice: once concentrating on Beauty and once on Stalker. I imagine the ending with both was... interesting?
It was a really cool visual novel; I love how the dialog was dynamic: adding choices and taking them away as the conversations progressed. Some interesting ideas I hope other games borrow.

Played this one with friends twice over the Holidays, once on Normal and another on Hard. Unfortunately the Switch version (maybe all?) have some problems with couch co-op. You only start with two characters unlocked, and unlock the 7 other wizards in the middle and late portions of the game, and sadly must restart the game and play them from level one if you wish to use them. This made playing the game a bit of a hassle and far less fun than it could have been. Something that also sounds poor but actually added to the fun of the game was the fact that your own spells hurt you and your team mates, in addition to your heals healing everything including enemies. It made combat completely chaotic and something that isn't easily seen in the trailers. Overall it was a pretty fun couch co-op Gauntlet-like, but it would have been so much easier to get into if they had simply fixed some of those head-scratching design choices.

Xenoblade and Xenoblade 2 are my favorites, though each have strengths and weaknesses that need ironing. After that come Xenosaga Episode 3 as the best of that trilogy. Xenogears is next though it's been so long I can't guarantee that it holds up. Xenosaga Episode 1 is next, which has its own issues. Xenoblade X is near the bottom, but Xenosaga Episode 2 takes that cake.

I doubt anyone remembers much of the JP coverage of this title, but it's intended to be a fast playthrough. At the very start, the Hero, once fallen in a battle to the death with his nemesis the Dark Lord Guile, is restored to life with a total of five days to go around and deal with unfinished business. As time lurches on, he loses stats and even forgets his magic spells, making this the only RPG I've ever played to have the hero begin play supremely OP, only to be the weakest member of the party by the end.

At the funeral, my hero got four eulogies, though I'm not sure why the third gal bothered. 353 people attended the interment, and 137 of them cried. After that, I go treated to a future chronology of the region, post-hero. Apparently there was an incipient civil war brewing that I could have headed off. Oh well, at least I sort of prevented a race war in the eastern half of the kingdom...

dot hack/G.U. Volume 1 Rebirth (PS4) - I like it, ended on a big cliff hanger so I'm glad I didn't play it way back when so I would have to wait months to move on. Also finished it in time to play the new Digimon game when it arrives today.

Golf Story (Switch) - This was a fun little game, though I’m not sure I enjoyed it as much as many people (saw it on a surprising number of GOY lists). The pixel art is fantastic and I like the basic concept, but a lot of the humor fell flat for me and I got frustrated with some of the golfing mechanics. Golf is the only sport I have the slightest talent for IRL so maybe that why the NES-era gameplay wore on me a bit. Putting was awful, but they compensated by making chipping ridiculously easy, so I scored best by intentionally missing greens and chipping in for birdies and eagles. Then again, $15 for 15 hours of decent pickup and play fun... hard to complain too much.

After watching the TV series, I had a desire to play the second Koei Warriors game covering the entirety of the series, including the epilogue not covered by the anime. Fortunately, my roommate happened to have a digital copy lying around in his download queue, so that's what I've been playing this month. It was my first Koei Warriors game. Not sure that I plan to add to that list. The game was fun but so much of a slog. I completed the main story and each of the semi-canon character stories. It took a while to do so, because the playable roaster is 25. While a lot of the selections are fun, so many of the non-special characters felt a little tacked on. Overall, I did have fun, just not as much as I feel like I should have.

While I wait for Dragon Ball FighterZ and Dissidia Final Fantasy NT to come out, I am going to plow ahead into another volume of .hack//G.U.

For a more actiony version of Grim Dawn/Diablo, Victor Vran was surprisingly enjoyable in spite of its middling RPG elements. We had a pretty good time going through the main story with all the hexes on. I took to using a lot of different weapons throughout, but have settled on Revolvers and Swords for now. There's still a lot of potential end game, challenges, and DLC to go through too. Overall its been pretty fun and I expect it to continue offering hours of entertainment. But I do wish that there was a little more customization options and maybe like saved loadouts for different costumes and weapon sets that the player may want to swap between. If this VV had something like the equivalent of Grim Dawn's constellations and a few more bosses that'd really push it ahead, but as is its still pretty solid.